Who stars in The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones Documentaries (2007)?

Danny Shorago, H.W. Brands, John Parsons, David Silbey.

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones Documentaries (2007) Web Series — Cast, Story & Where to Watch

Name: The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones Documentaries (2007)
Director: David Schneider
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2007
Cast: Danny Shorago, H.W. Brands, John Parsons, David Silbey

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones Documentaries (2007) is a documentary web series in English. On New MovieLinkBD: full story, cast, ratings, season & episode guide, official trailer and where to watch The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones Documentaries online in HD.

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones Documentaries — Storyline

A series of documentaries covering a wealth of historical epochs touched upon in The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles (1992).

Cast & Crew

Created by: David Schneider
Starring: Danny Shorago, H.W. Brands, John Parsons, David Silbey

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones Documentaries — Series Details

First Air Date	2007-10-23
Seasons	3
Episodes	98
Genre	Documentary
Language	English
Status	Ended

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones Documentaries — Episode Guide

Season 1

E1: Archaeology: Unearthing Our Past (2007-10-23) — Man's history on Earth dates back at least tens of thousands of years, yet written records stretch back to only a fraction of that. Helping clarify the picture of humanity past is
E2: Howard Carter and the Tomb of Tutankhamun (2007-10-23) — Howard Carter's unflagging persistence and stubbornness led to one of the greatest archaeological discoveries of the 20th century: the tomb of King Tut. Yet it was that same strong
E3: Colonel Lawrence's War – T.E. Lawrence and Arabia (2007-10-23) — He was an action hero as well as an intellectual hero. T.E. Lawrence escaped a safe office job during World War I to become a guerilla war mastermind in desert combat, fighting alo
E4: From Slavery to Freedom (2007-10-23) — Humanity has lived in, with and on the profits of slavery for most of its history. Many of its greatest achievements and monuments have tragically been built on the backs of slave
E5: Theodore Roosevelt and The American Century (2007-10-23) — Known during his time as "the American Lion," Theodore Roosevelt led the U.S. into the 20th Century. He was the first president to travel abroad, the first to travel on an airplane
E6: Ecology – Pulse of the Planet (2007-10-23) — As far as we know, planet Earth stands alone as a cradle of life in the universe. Ecological efforts strive to protect the balance that fosters that life. In this documentary, see
E7: American Dreams – Norman Rockwell & The Saturday Evening Post (2007-10-23) — Perhaps no artist came to capture the optimistic spirit of America in the first half of the 20th Century better than Norman Rockwell. In an era before television became the mass me
E8: Art Rebellion – The Making of the Modern (2007-10-23) — Paris in the last half of the 19th Century was a city on the move. It was a modern metropolis expanding into the future, with electric lights and steel towers. And yet its art was
E9: Edgar Degas – Reluctant Rebel (2007-10-23) — Among the ranks of fed-up young artists reshaping the world of modern art was Edgar Degas. At the heart of the movement, Degas stood alone as coming from an aristocratic and wealth
E10: Braque & Picasso – A Collaboration Cubed (2007-10-23) — Enthusiasts of maverick artist Pablo Picasso will readily credit him and him alone for envisioning the bold new form of cubism, but a much quieter yet no less integral artist deser
E11: Giacomo Puccini – Music of the Heart (2007-10-23) — To this day, an opera by Giacomo Puccini will play to a packed house. Puccini's works — including La Bohème — are engaging stories set to stirring music that are still very much
E12: It's Opera! (2007-10-23) — Most everyone can recognize the sound of opera when they hear it, but few of us know what opera really is. What is the secret to opera? Discover how the complex interplay of multip
E13: The Archduke's Last Journey – End of an Era (2007-10-23) — In June 1914, a special train carried Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austrian throne, to Sarajevo. Terrorists would strike, and a 19-year old gunman killed the Archduke and
E14: Powder Keg – Europe 1900 to 1914 (2007-10-23) — Between August 1914 and November 1918, 27 countries would declare war. Over 60 million men from around the world would fight and over eight-and-a-half million would die. In the sum
E15: Sigmund Freud – Exploring the Unconscious (2007-10-23) — There was a time where doctor-patient relationships were strictly authoritarian — doctors did not listen, but rather prescribed — and those suffering from mental problems endured
E16: Carl Jung and the Journey to Self Discovery (2007-10-23) — A protégé of Freud, Carl Gustav Jung felt that his mentor's ideas were too limiting, and he sought other sources of influence on the behavior of individuals and cultures. It was Ju
E17: Psychology – Charting the Human Mind (2007-10-23) — The analysis of the mind and the exploration of human motives and behavior are some of the breakthrough areas of study in the 19th and 20th century, shaped by visionary thinkers an
E18: Seeking Truth – The Life of Leo Tolstoy (2007-10-23) — Born into the highest circles of Russian society, Leo Tolstoy wrestled with himself for the excesses of his aristocratic life. His conflicted journals became the basis for lifetime
E19: Unquiet Voices – Russian Writers and the State (2007-10-23) — Beginning in the 19th century, Russian writers created a national literature unparalleled in its moral and philosophical depth and intensity. They rebelled against conventions of w
E20: Aristotle – Creating Foundations (2007-10-23) — No other philosopher has ranged so broadly over so many topics, nor made so many discoveries than Aristotle. In ancient Greece, Aristotle differed from his mentor Plato by not attr
E21: Ancient Questions – Philosophy and Our Search for Meaning (2007-10-23) — Since the dawn of time, human beings have looked at the world around them and each other and have asked questions about what they saw. Every human is a natural born philosopher, bu
E22: Jiddu Krishnamurti – The Reluctant Messiah (2007-10-23) — He was plucked from poverty and illness in India and was declared to be the new messiah, groomed to bring salvation to the world. As a boy, he became the symbol of a new spiritual
E23: Annie Besant – An Unlikely Rebel (2007-10-23) — Annie Besant was strong-willed woman in an authoritarian era. Journeying from vicar's wife to spiritual leader, Besant lived courageously and passionately. She brought attention to
E24: Medicine in the Middle Kingdom (2007-10-23) — One of the world's oldest civilizations, China created a complex and sophisticated culture emphasizing on order and harmony. Part of that culture was a system of health care radica
E25: Eastern Spirituality – The Road to Enlightenment (2007-10-23) — The world's religious beliefs as determined by compass points group the major faiths into Western spirituality (Christians, Jews and Muslims) and Eastern spirituality (Buddhist or
E26: Thomas Edison – Lighting Up the World (2007-10-23) — The country was already singing Thomas Edison's praises for his astonishing invention of the phonograph, but that was just one of his many record-breaking number of patents. His gr
E27: Invention and Innovation – What's Behind a Good Idea? (2007-10-23) — The US patent office is filled with a seemingly endless array of well-intentioned but ultimately ridiculous ideas for devices meant to make life better. Dog ear-warmers? Protective
E28: The Mystery of Edward Stratemeyer (2007-10-23) — The characters that Edward Stratemeyer created are some of the most endearing and enduring fictional heroes ever, and yet few know of the author's name. His prolific writing and ph
E29: Wanted: Dead or Alive – Pancho Villa and the American Invasion of Mexico (2007-10-23) — At least 100 ballads sing his name and his praises, telling tale of a mythical figure: outlaw, bandit, lover, a modern Robin Hood. His image was even carefully crafted by Hollywood
E30: General John J. Pershing and His American Army (2007-10-23) — When the Great War erupted in 1914, the US remained on their side of the ocean, deeming it to be a solely European conflict. When German submarines targeted American civilian targe
E31: George S. Patton – American Achilles (2007-10-23) — He longed for combat, saying that he was destined for war. Serving on the punitive hunt for Pancho Villa, Patton enjoyed a brief moment of fame for gunning down some of Villa's lie
E32: Easter Rising – The Poets' Rebellion (2007-10-23) — Easter, 1916: At noon, Dublin explodes in gunfire as a motley band of Irish rebels takes on the world's most powerful empire. They begin by hijacking a post office. Despite a fierc
E33: The Passions of William Butler Yeats (2007-10-23) — Up until the early 20th century, contemporary Irish literature barely existed in the world's imagination. Everyone looked to England for great literature. One man changed all that:
E34: Sean O'Casey vs. Ireland (2007-10-23) — As Ireland struggled for Independence, writer Sean O'Casey watched the needs of the poor become increasingly overlooked as matters of flag and nation took center-stage. O'Casey bri
E35: Ireland – The Power of the Poets (2007-10-23) — Poetry is powerful in Ireland. This harsh land, besieged by violence, poverty and strife has produced some of the world's most enduring lyric poets. Since ancient times, Ireland's
E36: Winston Churchill – The Lion's Roar (2007-10-23) — Brilliant, arrogant and energetic, Winston Churchill led the nation he loved throughout World War II when Britain's very existence was threatened. In the early 1930s, Churchill was
E37: Demanding the Vote – The Pankhursts and British Suffrage (2007-10-23) — In 1913, the British government was under assault by its own people who were torching buildings, shattering office windows, and attacking the homes of government leaders. These rev
E38: Fighting for the Vote – Women's Suffrage in America (2007-10-23) — At the birth of the United States, the Declaration of Independence affirmed the principles and intentions of the country's founders. But when the nation was born, the principles ap
E39: Historical Lecture: The Promise of Progress (2007-10-23) — Join H.W. Brands, professor of history at the University of Texas Austin, on the changes that occurred in the late-19th and early-20th Centuries.

Season 2

E1: The Somme – A Storm of Steel (2007-12-18) — Begun in July of 1916, the devastating Battle of the Somme was a turning point in warfare, demarking the modern combat arena in horrific carnage. Unseasoned and poorly trained Brit
E2: Siegfried Sassoon – A War Poet's Journey (2007-12-18) — He was a soldier's soldier, decorated for bravery by the British government and respected by the men in his battalion. But war had taken its toll on Siegfried Sassoon, and he felt
E3: Robert Graves and the White Goddess (2007-12-18) — Writer Robert Graves took many unpredictable turns on his fascinating journey through life. Though Graves would describe himself first and foremost as a poet, he was a man of enorm
E4: I Am France – The Myth of Charles de Gaulle (2007-12-18) — In France's darkest hours of World War II, a lone French voice emanated from BBC radio in an attempt to rally free French forces to resist the power of invading Germany. Recognizin
E5: Into the Furnace – The Battle of Verdun (2007-12-18) — They called Verdun the Meat Grinder. The Furnace. Hell. When the fighting died down, almost a year after it began, French and German armies were back where they started — minus cl
E6: Marshal Pétain's Fall from Grace (2007-12-18) — In 1916, 60-year old General Henri Philippe Pétain, who'd been passed by for promotion most of his life, took charge of a horrific World War I battle that would mark France for gen
E7: Flirting with Danger – The Fantasy of Mata Hari (2007-12-18) — A palpable tension held its grip on Paris in 1917. It was the third disastrous year of World War I. France was losing badly — and looking for someone to blame. In mid-February, wo
E8: Reading the Enemy's Mind – Espionage in World War I (2007-12-18) — Over the course of the 20th century, the secretive government agencies and the spies who ran them would complete the transformation of espionage from an amateur activity to a full-
E9: Chasing the Phantom – Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck (2007-12-18) — The war in East Africa was far different from the hell of the Western Front. The stories that emerged there had a human dimension, where individuals could actually put their imprin
E10: Dreaming of Africa – The Life of Frederick Selous (2007-12-18) — Frederick Selous was a hunter, explorer, and celebrated author. Most of all, he was the envy of thrill-seekers everywhere, who coveted his life of mystery and danger. So large a fi
E11: At Home and Abroad – The Two Faces of Jan Smuts (2007-12-18) — As the only man to sign both the Treaty of Versailles at the end of World War I and the Paris Peace Treaty that brought an end to World War II, Jan Christiaan Smuts was a voice for
E12: Albert Schweitzer – Reverence for Life (2007-12-18) — In 1953, Albert Schweitzer won the Nobel Prize for peace, and magazines and newspaper articles were calling him "the greatest man in the world." He was one of the most unlikely can
E13: Congo – A Curse of Riches (2007-12-18) — The Congo encompasses a million square miles of the richest land in Africa. Yet despite that wealth — or perhaps because of it — throughout their history the Congolese would near
E14: Waging Peace – The Rise of Pacifism (2007-12-18) — As the 20th century approached, governments all over Europe were doing their best to win the deadly game of the arms race. But some of their subjects were beginning to fear that if
E15: War in the Third Dimension – Aerial Warfare in World War I (2007-12-18) — When World War I began, the rival armies charged into battle with frightening new weapons that seemed ready to change the very nature of war. One promising new piece of military ha
E16: Blood Red – The Life and Death of Manfred von Richthofen (2007-12-18) — Today, historians and aviation buffs still celebrate the Red Baron as the ideal fighter pilot. A daring knight of the sky who helped write the book on aerial combat during the worl
E17: Flying High for France – The Lafayette Escadrille (2007-12-18) — In a war that claimed millions of lives, most who served in the military fought because they had no choice. But the high flying men of the Lafayette Escadrille were different: they
E18: Anthony Fokker – The Flying Dutchman (2007-12-18) — On November 11, 1918, the Germans laid down their arms, finally ending World War I. In the surrender agreement, the Allies listed the numbers of cannons, machine guns and other wea
E19: Karl – The Last Habsburg Emperor (2007-12-18) — Karl, the last Emperor of Austria and King of Hungary, was labeled a traitor and failure during his lifetime. His own people exiled him. Still, there has been recognition that perh
E20: The Russian Revolution – All Power to the Soviets! (2007-12-18) — In 1991, the Soviet Union, one of the most powerful nations on Earth, collapsed. Born in socialist revolution almost three-quarters of a century earlier, its birth in 1917 sent sho
E21: V. I. Lenin – History Will Not Forgive Us (2007-12-18) — To create the utopian world he envisioned, Lenin did what he thought he had to. His violent seizure of power — and the harsh measures he took to hold onto it — inspired generatio
E22: Impresario – Sergei Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes (2007-12-18) — Fearless, strong-willed and always a champion of the modern, Sergei Diaghilev discovered a talented group of artists and inspired them to reach new creative heights. Diaghilev wasn
E23: Ballet – The Art of Dance (2007-12-18) — Beautiful and effortless, ballet is one of the world's most elegant art forms — the human body as poetry in motion. Achieving and maintaining the artful illusion of ballet is all-
E24: Franz Kafka's Dark Truth (2007-12-18) — Franz Kafka had made his living as an attorney in an insurance company, where he'd eked out an obscure and unexceptional life. But when the lawyer put pen to paper, the writer conj
E25: Lines in the Sand – The Middle East and the Great War (2007-12-18) — The Ottoman Empire once spanned three continents, stretching from Budapest to Basra to Algiers. Founded around 1300, it created a rich, multi-ethnic world that was Islamic in faith
E26: Colonel Lawrence's War – T.E. Lawrence and Arabia (2007-12-18) — He was an action hero as well as an intellectual hero. T.E. Lawrence escaped a safe office job during World War I to become a guerilla war mastermind in desert combat, fighting alo
E27: Historical Lecture: War and Revolution (2007-12-18) — Join H.W. Brands, professor of history at the University of Texas Austin, on an hour-long lecture on the wars and revolutions of the early 20th Century..

Season 3

E1: Unhealed Wounds – The Life of Ernest Hemingway (2008-04-29) — Ernest Hemingway was the best-selling, most celebrated author of his time. He wove war, love, pain and death into unforgettable patchworks of prose, and sought adventure and craved
E2: The French Foreign Legion – The World's Most Legendary Fighting Force (2008-04-29) — For almost two hundred years one group of fighting men has held an unrivaled grip on the world's imagination. Shadowy pasts have made them outcasts. Glorious victories have made th
E3: The Secret Life of Edith Wharton (2008-04-29) — In 1905, all of New York was riveted by the story of Lily Bart, a stunning young woman hoping to claim her place in society through marriage to a wealthy man. As her prospects for
E4: Lowell Thomas – American Storyteller (2008-04-29) — Over the course of his illustrious career, Lowell Thomas was an adventurer, a showman, the most familiar voice in radio, a television personality and a media pioneer. He was one of
E5: For the People, Despite the People – The Atatürk Revolution (2008-04-29) — At the end of World War I, the Ottoman Empire paid the ultimate price for choosing the wrong side. The winners, Britain and France, marched in and began to carve it up. Then an arm
E6: The Greedy Heart of Halide Edib (2008-04-29) — In novels, memoirs, and essays, the Turkish writer Halide Edib chronicled the most cataclysmic change in the history of her country: its creation after World War I from the ashes o
E7: The Ottoman Empire – A World of Difference (2008-04-29) — The Ottoman Empire lasted some 600 years, and spanned three continents. It was not only their military campaigns that made the Ottomans a force to be reckoned with for centuries. I
E8: Dracula – Fact and Fiction (2008-04-29) — Few figures are so well known and strike as much terror as that of the vampire known as "Dracula." This creature — not yet dead, but no longer alive — has at one time or another
E9: Bronislaw Malinowski – God Professor (2008-04-29) — In 1915, a Polish scholar named Bronislaw Malinowski landed on a tiny island off the coast of New Guinea. He had come as an anthropologist — a scientist who studies the origins an
E10: Anthropology – Looking at the Human Condition (2008-04-29) — For over 100 years anthropologists have been learning from people in every corner of our world, and using the data they gather to create a group portrait of the human race. And whe
E11: New Guinea – Paradise in Peril (2008-04-29) — A land of mystery and danger, it's been said that New Guinea contains more strange and new and beautiful things than any other part of the globe. Located off the coast of southeast
E12: The Best Intentions – The Paris Peace Conference and the Treaty of Versailles (2008-04-29) — In May 1919, six months after the end of the Great War in Europe, a French train departed from Berlin, carrying the German delegation to the Paris Peace Conference. The victors dec
E13: Woodrow Wilson – American Idealist (2008-04-29) — In 1913, 56 year old Woodrow Wilson was inaugurated President of the United States. He came to the job with little practical experience. Still, he arrived in Washington confident,
E14: Gertrude Bell – Iraq's Uncrowned Queen (2008-04-29) — On March 20, 2003, the United States invaded Iraq. Saddam Hussein, the dictator who'd controlled this nation for nearly 25 years was deposed. Many Iraqis celebrated this turning po
E15: Ho Chi Minh – The Price of Freedom (2008-04-29) — In the summer of 1966, the United States found itself in a war it couldn't win, against an enemy it didn't understand. For the Americans, it was a war against Communism. But for th
E16: Paul Robeson – Scandalize My Name (2008-04-29) — Paul Robeson was great at everything he did. And he did a lot: an acclaimed singer, actor, all-American football player, Ivy-league educated lawyer, prize-winning orator. Robeson s
E17: Robert Goddard – Mr. Rocket Science (2008-04-29) — Since our ancestors first stood on two legs, we've looked up at the universe with wonder. And we've been lighting up the night sky since the Chinese first invented rockets some 200
E18: Jazz – Rhythms of Freedom (2008-04-29) — Jazz was born in America, in cotton fields and cities… in brothels and churches. In the opera house, and the night club… jazz was music of the people. It began as part of a que
E19: Al "Scarface" Capone – The Original Gangster (2008-04-29) — In the 1920s the sprawling, brawling, skyscraper-studded city of Chicago ruled the American heartland. And one man seemed to rule Chicago. A racketeer, pimp, bootlegger and cold-bl
E20: Prohibition – America on the Rocks (2008-04-29) — On October 10th, 1919, for the first time in American history, lawmakers voted to change the Constitution and strip away one of people's personal freedoms. Prohibition, the 18th am
E21: On the Trail of Eliot Ness (2008-04-29) — In the late '20s, gangland killings were tearing Chicago apart, as mob leader Al Capone battled to be top dog. Valentine's Day 1929 was be a bad day to be in Chicago if you worked
E22: Louis Armstrong – Ambassador of Jazz (2008-04-29) — At the height of his career, Louis Armstrong and his band toured Europe. The sextet had come to perform America's greatest export — jazz — but Armstrong's adoring audiences knew
E23: Ben Hecht – Shakespeare of Hollywood (2008-04-29) — Chicago in the roaring twenties was a hotbed of activity — mostly criminal. Mobsters controlled gambling and the flow of alcohol, and they brutally exacted their revenge on their
E24: Hellfighters – Harlem's Heroes of World War I (2008-04-29) — On July 14, 1919, French, British and American troops paraded down the Champs-Élysées in Paris, celebrating their triumph in the bloody trenches of World War I. But one American re
E25: Tin Pan Alley – Soundtrack of America (2008-04-29) — Perhaps no artistic medium has acted as a more accurate cultural barometer than the popular song — charting the nation's passions and pastimes with color and immediacy. In the ear
E26: Wonderful Nonsense – The Algonquin Round Table (2008-04-29) — "All the things I really like to do are either immoral, illegal or fattening." / "That woman speaks 18 languages and can't say no in any of them." / "Why don't you get out of that
E27: Broadway – America Center Stage (2008-04-29) — The year was 1927, and the New York theater district called 'Broadway' was entering what would be its greatest season in history. More than 264 shows were going to open that year –
E28: Erich von Stroheim – The Profligate Genius (2008-04-29) — He was unmistakable. With his suave demeanor, impeccable wardrobe and bullet head, on screen Erich von Stroheim played sadistic and sometimes seductive Prussians. As a director, vo
E29: The Rise of the Moguls – The Men Who Built Hollywood (2008-04-29) — To the outside world Hollywood seemed like a magic place. Here, the sun was always shining, everyone had a swimming pool, and glamorous people earned enormous salaries working in f
E30: Irving Thalberg – Hollywood's Boy Wonder (2008-04-29) — Named for one of Hollywood's most legendary filmmakers, the Thalberg Award is given to "creative producers personally responsible for a consistently high quality of motion picture
E31: The World of John Ford (2008-04-29) — People called it the Dust Bowl, an environmental disaster that struck the Great Plains in the late 1930s, when the country was already reeling under the Depression. John Steinbeck'
E32: Historical Lecture: New Gods for Old (2008-04-29) — Join H.W. Brands, professor of history at the University of Texas Austin, on the societal movements and massive cultural changes of the early 20th century.